Another fatal wrong-way crash on I-275

For the second time this month, a car heading the wrong way on Interstate 275 in Hillsborough County was involved in a fatal crash.

Early this morning, a wrong-way driver from Riverview was killed when he struck a box truck just north of Bearss Avenue, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Two people in the truck received minor injuries.

At 2:35 a.m., Chase Kaleb Leveille, 25, was driving a 1993 Honda Civic north in the southbound center lane of I-275, when he crashed head-on into an unloaded rental truck going south, troopers said.

Leveille died at the scene, the patrol said.

Investigators say Leveille was initially traveling southbound on I-275 near Busch Boulevard, but for unknown reasons made a U-turn, heading north when he struck the truck.